Mercury-Atlas 7 launch day cover with a stamped cachet honoring the "2nd Man Orbit Shot," postmarked at Patrick Air Force Base on May 24, 1962, signed in ink by all seven original Mercury astronauts: "Alan B. Shepard, Jr.," "Virgil I. Grissom," "John Glenn," "Scott Carpenter," "Walter M. Schirra, Jr.," "Gordon Cooper," and "D. K. Slayton." Handsomely archivally mounted matted, and framed with an image of the Mercury Seven to an overall size of 11.75 x 15. In very fine condition. On May 24, 1962, Carpenter became the second American to orbit Earth on board the Aurora 7 spacecraft.
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